Lane County plans to expand its mobile crisis intervention program. This comes as a similar service operated by White Bird ...

As a mental health counselor, Sarah Alexander spends her days hearing from clients about trauma, depression and related ...

As a mental health counselor, Sarah Alexander spends her days hearing from clients about trauma, depression and related topics. But, she said, what keeps her up at night is the constant "axe over my ...

For the past decade, the body mass index formula has been used to deny or delay abortion care, despite researchers finding little evidence of increased adverse outcomes based on higher body weight ...

Efforts to downsize the federal government are also having a disproportionate impact. The federal government has long enjoyed a strong reputation for hiring and accommodating people with disabilities, ...

The Federal Trade Commission late Tuesday stayed a lawsuit accusing pharmacy middlemen of gaming the system to inflate the price of insulin — a drug millions of Americans need to survive. When it did, ...

The most recent version of the bill would require the state’s hospitals to comply with the federal rules and submit price data to the state’s Department of Health, which would track compliance. It ...

Meanwhile, White Bird also plans to lay off more than 20 CAHOOTS workers, keeping just seven full-time staff. The remaining ...

ProPublica shared the new CDC statement about personal choice and risk with Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center ...

Oregon and Washington have joined 21 other states and the District of Columbia to sue the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

Commitments can last up to six months, and be extended afterward if necessary. Because the action denies a person’s civil ...

“The majority of counties don't do most of the long-term commitments,” said Kawamura, who helps oversee cases involving ...